[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-transfiguration-master-of-hogwarts":3,"chapter-the-transfiguration-master-of-hogwarts-the-transfiguration-master-of-hogwarts-chapter-263":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Transfiguration Master of Hogwarts",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2320968,4539,"Chapter 263","the-transfiguration-master-of-hogwarts-chapter-263",263,"\u003Cp>“Crookshanks, what are you doing here? Where have you been lately?” Hermione tightly hugged Crookshanks, whose fur, neglected recently, had grown matted and tangled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind Hermione, Harry felt as if he had plunged into an ice cave; his entire body stiffened as he stared at the figure both utterly familiar and strangely alien.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he had imagined countless times what it would be like to meet him, now that the moment had come, Harry felt a wave of helplessness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Matted, filthy hair hung down to his elbows; if not for the faint glow in his deep, dark eye sockets, he might have been a corpse; waxen skin clung tightly to the bones of his face, resembling a skull, and he grinned with yellowed teeth—it was Sirius Black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Expelliarmus!” he rasped, pointing Hermione’s wand toward Harry; though Harry still wore the Invisibility Cloak, Hermione and Ron had already revealed his position—before Harry could react, his wand flew from his hand, soaring high into the air, caught by Black, and the Invisibility Cloak slipped from his shoulders to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s going on?” Ron’s voice suddenly came, “Who put two Muggle flashlights in the Forbidden Forest...” Ron’s voice trembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he appeared, Sirius Black cast another Disarming Charm; Ron’s wand also shot upward, caught effortlessly by Black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Diagon Alley\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, all three lost their ability to fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius Black pointed his wand at the three and smiled a terrifying smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What a beautiful friendship! Just like the one I had with your father,” he rasped, his voice sounding as if he hadn’t spoken in years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry’s ears rang with Black’s taunts about his father, as if Black had shouted them aloud; hatred boiled in his chest, leaving no room for fear. For the first time in his life, he longed desperately for his wand back—not to defend himself, but to attack... to kill. He lunged forward, not fully understanding what he meant to do, but suddenly, hands grabbed him from both sides, dragging him back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No, Harry, calm down, the scroll!” Hermione whispered urgently in his ear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry instantly calmed; he could feel the long object in his arms—the defense item Allen had made for him before leaving; it was their only remaining hope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But pulling out the scroll and activating it would take time—they were still under Black’s wand, and he wasn’t sure if reaching for the scroll would alert him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He glanced at Ron; Ron clearly also remembered the scroll Allen had given him. Harry knew Black’s main target was him—he needed to buy time for Ron and Hermione.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took a step forward. “Your target is me. Don’t hurt my friends. Let them go!” Harry said calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Though you’ve probably heard it many times, I’ll say it again—you look just like your father,” Sirius Black’s smile deepened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps because there was still a glimmer of hope, Harry did not react with the same fury as before upon hearing those words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Was all of this your trap?” Hermione suddenly spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes. But you’d better let me see your hands—don’t try anything funny,” Sirius Black said abruptly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hermione reluctantly pulled her hands out of her pockets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did you forge Hagrid’s letter?” Hermione continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes. I’m very familiar with Hagrid’s handwriting,” Sirius Black said calmly; his demeanor was utterly unlike the manic figure in the wanted posters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Enough talk. There will be only one murder tonight,” Sirius Black said with a grin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pointed his wand at Ron.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ron was quietly scanning the surroundings for suitable objects to transfigure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Take the rat out of your chest pocket!” Sirius Black suddenly said something that startled all three.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ron’s chest suddenly stirred—Scabbers was thrashing violently inside; despite the earlier commotion, he had remained motionless, but now he struggled fiercely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?” Ron said. “What does Scabbers have to do with this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Everything!” Black roared. “Take out that rat!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ron reached into his robe; Scabbers struggled even more violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius Black’s eyes gleamed with excitement as he fixed his gaze on Ron’s hand inside the robe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hermione immediately realized this was her chance; she quietly pulled out the blue scroll Allen had given her, broke the binding ring, and aimed it at the stone she had already chosen...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Throughout the entire process, Sirius Black did not notice—he was still staring at Ron’s hand inside the robe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hermione knew Allen’s scroll was their last hope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without hesitation, she unfurled the entire scroll; as it opened, countless streams of light flowed across its densely covered runes, and the stone rapidly transformed—then a white shadow shot from the scroll and merged into the changing stone...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The white shadow was the Patronus Allen had cultivated; in the end, Allen had decided to imprison the Patronus within the scroll, releasing it the instant the Transfiguration spell took effect, to strike the transfigured creature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hermione noticed strange things fixed to the scroll’s surface—some were hairs, some leaves, some scales...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the entire scroll burst into flames; Hermione quickly threw it away, and it quickly turned to ash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stone completed its transformation—it was a creature unknown in this world, bizarre and mismatched; it was no larger than a sheep, with tiny dragon wings on its back, a massive green leaf growing from its head, its body resembling a fox, but its forelimbs were not claws—they were fin-like appendages; most peculiar of all, two bright red circular spots adorned each cheek of the fox.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hermione immediately felt a connection form between herself and the creature—the same sensation as when she linked with an animal she had transfigured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Defeat Sirius Black,” Hermione thought, locking her gaze on Black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The strange creature suddenly spread its wings and opened a pair of luminous, wide eyes; Hermione felt those eyes were nothing like the dull, lifeless gaze of a transfigured animal...\u003C\u002Fp>",967,"2026-06-20T16:09:24.693Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","a4439b538510e8cdc88de5fca2354e96af8c842a052e86151617c829c09400c6","the-transfiguration-master-of-hogwarts-chapter-264","the-transfiguration-master-of-hogwarts-chapter-262",284,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-transfiguration-master-of-hogwarts-cover.jpg"]